Cult Creator - The Pilgrims Journey
- Thread starter HeroCooky
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HeroCooky
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Yeah, it is a good choice for livestock. Chickens eat it, goats do, Lizards actually like it.
Godwinson
"Well, I've got nothing."
Research topic suggestion: soil structure and chemistry. We have different grades of farmland to take soil samples from.
EDIT: Also, hydrology -- studying the way that water moves across the land, so as to create better irrigation (and one that avoids salinity issues)
EDIT: Also, hydrology -- studying the way that water moves across the land, so as to create better irrigation (and one that avoids salinity issues)
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Also a suggestion - we do a lot of digging. Would we benifit from electric jackhammers?
Godwinson
"Well, I've got nothing."
Power-tools in general would help with construction quite a bit.
- Location
- Queensland, Australia
Hell, we've got steam power on the way and currently have hydraulic/mechanical power. Which means pneumatic jackhammers should definitely be possible if we can't crack electric ones.
HeroCooky
Unverified Monstergirl
Yes, though they would be behind the second electricity research.
- Location
- Queensland, Australia
How good is our ability to make pneumatic-powered tools? Because that was the stepping stone between mechanical/hydraulic power source right there and electric's generator somewhere near the town.
Only truly efficient in a small town scale really, but that's what we're dealing with right now.
HeroCooky
Unverified Monstergirl
You would need to reasearch them first, but you could produce some basic version of them. It would be 16 Successes research. (Electric ones would be 20.)
Another good tech for us would be learning how to make our own paper. I am thinking a system to bleach and separate sandwheat fibers into pulp and bind them into sheets.
It would reduce the cost of our admin building and have synergy if we build a printing press. We could get into the penny dreadful romance novel business, but write our morals into the stories to spread our virtues beyond just those who are explicitly pilgrams.
It would also be a PR win to have a running harem anime type story with a loveable but unlucky pilgram protagonist.
It would reduce the cost of our admin building and have synergy if we build a printing press. We could get into the penny dreadful romance novel business, but write our morals into the stories to spread our virtues beyond just those who are explicitly pilgrams.
It would also be a PR win to have a running harem anime type story with a loveable but unlucky pilgram protagonist.
- Location
- Queensland, Australia
Anything beneficial from that research we wouldn't get from the electric one? I'm sure there's some, but I'm not sure just how uneven our technological advancement is thanks to the salvaged nature of some of the inspiration for what we develop.
For example, we learned how to make basic computer circuits of some sort at the same time as cracking electric lighting I think...
So we might end up developing a replacement for the pneumatics that requires a much more advanced technology whilst also barely developing the technology for the simple replacements.
Phnumatic tools are actually generally more powerful than electric, but they need a much more complex power transmission. Electric tools are fairly portable if you can make a portable generator. Phnumatic tools need ether a fluid pump (hydrolics are low speed, high power), a compressor (air phnumatics are high speed, still good power), or direct drive (potentially high speed AND power dependant on your power source).
Electric tools are flexible though, generally able to switch between speed/power by adjusting very simple bits inside them.
Phnumatics, especially air phnumatics are also generally loud as crap.
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On the power tools side, we have a plasma torch that is probably beyond our reach for the forseeable future. We also have a soldering kit that is much more affordable to research.
I think this would require us to grow sandwheat in the first place. Probably best to wait until the village is set up and have them grow it.
Really any fibrous plant would do, from wood to sandwheat to any other crop with tough fibery bits.
HeroCooky
Unverified Monstergirl
1. Paper is really cheap to buy, and you already buy that in bulk.
2. I'll add the printing press to the list.
3. ...make an action proposal out of that last one and I'll add that to the list.
See below.
Pneumatic would be power, but costly, while elcectric would be cheap but less effective. The difference would be 2 turns with pneumatic jackhammer versus electric ones when building an 8 turn building inside the Tree.
Another tech path for us to follow would be
Fermentation - > distillation - > biofuels
Sure, it starts with learning how to make booze and better booze, but soon enough you are sending our people out with ethenol stoves so they can have hot meals, stabilizing fuel into napalm, and edging into liquid fuel engines.
Ethenol would also be a good fuel to heat homes at night. If the climate is desert like then it could get quite cold.
EDIT : the other thing I just thought up that would be really cool would be hot air balloons. We may need to have something point us in the right direction, but it could be something as simple as a picture of one or a reference in a book. We could build one and send it up every day to look into the Forest of Rust for threats like the Butcher. It wouldn't be transport seeing as we would tether the balloon, but it would allow us a bird's eye view that reaches for miles and miles around us.
Then we could reinvent telescopes to make the balloon even more effective.
Launch the Ballon at night and have the Pilot carry a signal lantern and they could send and receive messages from anyone with a signal lantern within line of sight of the balloon. Again, this could be miles, even into someplace like the forest of rust.
Fermentation - > distillation - > biofuels
Sure, it starts with learning how to make booze and better booze, but soon enough you are sending our people out with ethenol stoves so they can have hot meals, stabilizing fuel into napalm, and edging into liquid fuel engines.
Ethenol would also be a good fuel to heat homes at night. If the climate is desert like then it could get quite cold.
EDIT : the other thing I just thought up that would be really cool would be hot air balloons. We may need to have something point us in the right direction, but it could be something as simple as a picture of one or a reference in a book. We could build one and send it up every day to look into the Forest of Rust for threats like the Butcher. It wouldn't be transport seeing as we would tether the balloon, but it would allow us a bird's eye view that reaches for miles and miles around us.
Then we could reinvent telescopes to make the balloon even more effective.
Launch the Ballon at night and have the Pilot carry a signal lantern and they could send and receive messages from anyone with a signal lantern within line of sight of the balloon. Again, this could be miles, even into someplace like the forest of rust.
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- Location
- USA
@HeroCooky what is the general protocol that the major nations use when Fractal Nova wanders near their borders or into their claimed land? Has Eversun tried to kill her yet?
HeroCooky
Unverified Monstergirl
Boy, if only we had something that could provide a lift. Like an Anti-Gravity Crystal from the Forest...
*hint hint, nudge nudge*
Empire: Yes, what do you want? (Diplomatic approach. They are ambivalent and wary of each other.)
Dul: You have to pay a toll. (Money.)
SBA: *Silent panic while hiding slaves.* (Panic.)
Eversun: Apoplectic Rage. Try to kill her. Again. (False Deity.)
Also - while I am brainstorming - electric furnaces. Not only for metal smiting, but for glass as well. Sand is a plentiful resource. Electric furnaces would allow us to get into the glass industry. At first this would be simple things like bottles and windows, but could grow into optics.
- Location
- USA
who is this?
HeroCooky
Unverified Monstergirl
The Shield Belt Alliance is a collection of 27 nations between the Eversun and the Empire. Their alliance is out of pure self-preservation, as alone they would have been annexed by the superpowers to the north and south of them immediatly.
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Consider this officially noticed and added to The List.
- Location
- USA
@HeroCooky how common are fully realized sapient AIs that are intact and want to help humanity like PD? Are they somewhat rare or common or borderline unheard of.
HeroCooky
Unverified Monstergirl
PD is the only fully realized sapient and sentient AI that is intact and wants to help humanity on Calynth. All other AI's are more like 6-year old idiot-savants with free will, and basic personality with minimal interests outside their function.